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Benjamin Jowett

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Noun1.Benjamin Jowett - English classical scholar noted for his translations of Plato and Aristotle (1817-1893)


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They are among seven students from the University of Bradford selected to receive the Benjamin Jowett Memorial Scholarship on Thursday, April 2.
But somehow I'd heard of what the Oxford scholar Benjamin Jowett called "the unspeakable vice of the Greeks" as he put it to his students (in the sort of scene dramatized years later in Maurice): there were some things in Plato that were simply not to be discussed.
It has come to nothing"--so wrote Benjamin Jowett about the Old Catholic movement, in its day more widespread and more sympathetically regarded than the Society of St.
 
 
 
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